curved mirror

collocation in English

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curved
adjective
uk
/kɜːvd/us
/kɝːvd/
having a rounded or smoothly ...
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mirror
noun
uk
/ˈmɪr.ər/us
/ˈmɪr.ɚ/
a piece of glass with a shiny, metal-covered back that reflects light, producing an image of whatever is in front ...
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Consider a family of rays lying in the same plane and being reflected by acurvedmirror.
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For stability, there has to be at least onecurvedmirrorin the circuit.
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The critical angle for grazing reflection is large enough (a few tenths of a degree for thermal neutrons) that acurvedmirrorcan be used.
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This used acurvedmirrorof large horizontal extent to allow distant-focus collimated viewing in a continuous, seamless, horizontal display for pilots seated side-by-side.
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These are panoramic sensors created by pointing a camera at acurvedmirror.
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It reflects off of acurvedmirroronto a galvanometer-mounted mirror which provides the vertical refresh.
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For reflecting telescopes, which use acurvedmirrorin place of the objective lens, theory preceded practice.
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It is also possible to place the reticle between the viewer and thecurvedmirrorat the mirror's focus.
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The artist presents the spaces of our lives filtered by a real convex mirror and thecurvedmirrorof her imagination as well.
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For a sphericallycurvedmirrorin air, the magnitude of the focal length is equal to the radius of curvature of the mirror divided by two.
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Typical requirements for grinding and polishing acurvedmirror, for example, require the surface to be within a fraction of a wavelength of light of a particular conic shape.
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Gordons later contribution to lasers included the analysis of the confocal, orcurvedmirrorlaser resonator.
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He used this law to compute optimum shapes for lenses and curved mirrors.
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The detailed prediction of how images are produced by these lenses can be made using ray-tracing similar to curved mirrors.
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Curved mirrors can form images with magnification greater than or less than one, and the image can be upright or inverted.
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Most curved mirrors have surfaces that are shaped like part of a sphere, but other shapes are sometimes used in optical devices.
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Collimation is done either with a collimator (basically, a long tube) or with a clever arrangement of gently curved mirrors.
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Specular reflection at a curved surface forms an image which may be magnified or demagnified; curved mirrors have optical power.
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Curved mirrors can form images with magnification greater than or less than one, and the magnification can be negative, indicating that the image is inverted.
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Commonly, a pair of curved mirrors form one or more confocal sections, with the rest of the cavity being quasi-collimated and using plane mirrors.
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